Dictionary Entry
tambour
tambour is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
- 2noun
A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
- 3noun
Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
- 4noun
A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- 5noun
A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- 6transitive verb
To embroider on a tambour.
- 7noun
a drum
- 8noun
a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
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